La ‘pija de oro’ en <i>Las aventuras del señor Maíz</i> de Washington Cucurto. Algunas notas

• Main Author: Cristian Molina
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Universidad Nacional de La Plata 2014-02-01
• Series: Orbis Tertius
• Subjects: Maquinaria; Narrativa Argentina; Washington Cucurto; Las aventuras del Señor Maíz
• Online Access: http://revistas.fahce.unlp.edu.ar/index.php/OT/article/view/4620

The present article consists in notes from research in progress. They address Washington Cucurto’s writing device with respect to the “negro”’s golden dick that the narrator/character Tyson Grande/Washington Cucurto/Norberto Vega implants into himself in Las aventuras del Señor Maíz (2005). We argue that such chirurgical and body prosthesis exhibits forces (in a Deleuzian sense) which govern all of Cucurto’s/Vega’s production: social, economic, sexual and Latin American cultural forces. The golden dick is, then, a poetic condensation which exhibits the writing machine as a melancholic beast in whose body forces in struggle for literature become destabilized.